Looped textile fabric



Oct. 14, 1941.

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INVENToR ATTORNEY Patented Uct. 14, 1941 LOOPED TEXTILE FABRIC Florence D. Leech and Arthur H. Adams, Jr., Newark, N. J., assig'nors, by mesne assignments, to Colorspace Patent Corporation, Newark, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application December 1s, 1940, serial No. 370,632

(cl. ess-169) 12 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in textile fabrics and more particularly in fabrics knitted or crocheted from polychrome yarn.

The object of this invention is to knit or crochet from a single strand of polychrome yarn, i. e., one having a regularly repeating sequence of colored lengths, a fabric having increasing or decreasing as distinguished from equal rows of stitches, and yet produce a recognizable and planned color pattern. Heretofore such planned effects where attempted with polychrome yarn only when the number of stitches was the same in each row.

A further object of the invention is to produce such fabric with rows which grow outward from a central point or from a starting row or from a piece of different fabric and which the outwardly growing rows completely or partially surr-ound. The adjacent rows may run in the same or opposite directions and the fabric may have the form of a cone, or a flat circle, semi-circle, square, etc. The length of yarn used in the individual stitches may be the same or different stitches may use up varying lengths of yarn.

The above mentioned objects are attained by forming one row of stitches from a length of yarn which exceeds the length used in the adjacent row by a complete (one, two, three, etc.) color cycle, i. e., by a sequence, of any regularly repeating sequence of colored lengths, observable in the yarn. A cycle may consist of al1 the successive colored lengths in the yarn or may leave some out. This additional yarn length is added within a width equal to a color cycle in the previous row. Thus, two or more color cycles in one row will be of the same width as one color cycle in the adjacent row. The color cycles in the adjacent rows may start and end in or out of phase. The difference between the length of yarn `used in two rows will be always an integral multiple of a complete color cycle.

In every other part of the fabric, except the color cycles mentioned wherein the increasing or decreasing is to be done, each color cycle in any row should ordinarily correspond in width to a color cycle in the previous row.

A fabric can, Of course, increase in width at one point and decrease at another point in the same row. More clearly to explain the nature of the invention, six embodiments thereof have been diagrammatically illustrated in Figs. l-6 of the drawings which will now be described in detail,

Figure 1 shows part of a rectangular mat crocheted outward from a starting chain of sixteen chain stitches, the last ten of which are shown in the drawing and indicated by the double arrow I. 'I'he yarn has a color cycle capable of forming six double crochet stitches, hereinafter abbreviated as DCs made up of two white DCs and four red DCs or the equivalent, i. e. stitches using a length of yarn equal to six DCs.

The first stitch after the starting row is marked 3 and it is composed of three red chain stitches made like a continuation of the starting chain I. In other words, the :I'lrst part of 3 is in the last of the sixteen of the starting chain I. The second stitch 4, is a DC attached in the last chain stitch of the sixteen that make up the starting chain I. It will be considered one of the corner stitches, for reasons that will be seen later. The third stitch 5 is a white DC attached in the same chain stitch as 4. Next comes another white DC 6 which will also be referred to as a corner stitch, and then another red DC l. 6 and l are both attached in the last chain stitch of the sixteenth stitch of the starting chain I. Thus five stitches (3, 4, 5, 6, and l) are attached in the end stitch of the starting chain. The next is 8, a red DC attached in the fifteenth chain stitch of the starting chain.

Continuing clockwise around the center chain I', there will be a DC attached in each chain stitch including the second stitch of the starting chain. Five DCs will be attached in the rst stitch of the chain corresponding to stitches 3, 4, 5, 6, and l. Two of these will be corner stitches, like 4 and Ii, making altogether four corner stitches in the row.

The row then continues clockwise from left to right on the upper side of the starting chain, with one DC attached in each chain stitch, ending with 9, a red DC in the next to last or fifteenth chain stitch of the starting chain. This will be the first row marked I.

Row II starts with a white slip stitch in the top of 3, and three white chain stitches, considered together as the rst stitch I0, of row II. Row II then continues counterclockwise around row I, already crocheted. The second stitch in row II is II, a white DC in the top of 9, and then one DC will be attached in the top of each DC of row I, till a corner stitch (not shown) of row I is reached. In every corner stitch seven DCs are attached as will be shown in connection with corner stitches 4 and 6. Row II runs counterclockwise below row I. There is one DC in each DC of row I except for the "corner stitches until DC I2 is completed, a red DC attached to 'l of row I. Seven DCs are attached to corner stitch 6 of rowI. The middle one of these, I3, will be called a corner stitch. After these seven stitches, one white DC will be attached to and then seven DCs to corner stitch 4, the middle one, I4, being called the corner stitch in row II. Row II ends in I5, a white DC attached to 4.

Row III starts with I6, a red slip-stitch and three red chain stitches considered together as one stitch attached to I0. The row runs clockwise like I. Note that every row starts and ends at the dotted line 2. Rows I, III, V, etc., run clockwise, and rows II, IV, VII, etc., counterclockwise.

The second stitch in row III is I1, a red DC. There will be seven DCs in each corner stitch such as I4. The middle one of the seven, 20, will be considered the corner stitch. Row III ends with I8, a red DC.

Row IV starts with stitch I9, consisting of a redfslip stitch and three red chain stitches.

Each row uses a length of yarn greater by four color cycles than the preceding row. The two color cycles of row V included within the doubleheaded arrow 22 are equivalent in width to the single color cycle 2| of row IV, and to the three color cycles 23 in row V. The two color cycles 25 in row VII are equivalent in width to the single color cycle 24 'in row VI. Since the yarn used in each row differs from the yarn in the adjacent rows by a whole number of color cycles, and one color cycle in one row corresponds in width to two color cycles in the adjacent row, the pattern is regular and recognizable.

The pattern in each side is made up of short diagonal stripes (three white spots each), alternating with short diagonal stripes in the opposite direction. The pattern in the corners of the rectangle is approximately what results from the meeting of two areas, each having this same pattern, meeting as if they were cut and joined on the diagonal. The slight irregularity along the dotted line 2 is the same as would result if two areas each having the same pattern, were joined with the patterns imperfectly matched up. The whole elTect is of a regular and recognizable pattern.

Figure 2 shows a little more than one quarter of a square fabric crocheted outward from a center (30). The yarn color cycle is equivalent to six DC stitches. That is, it is capable of forming six DC stitches or the equivalent, as for instance at 3|, where it forms, from left to right, two red DCs, two white DCs, two blue DCs.

The center 30 isa small ring of chain stitches closed by slip-stitching the end stitch of the chain to the rststitch of the chain. This slipstitch is followed by three more chain stitches. Theslip stitch and three chain stitches are considered together as the first stitch 33 of the first row ofthefabric. They are red. This stitch is followed by the next stitch in a counterclockwise direction, 34, a red DC stitch. 'I'hen by 35, a white DC stitch, and so on around the center 30 until the 24th stitch, 36, a blue DC, is made, completing the first row.

A slip-stitch is made in the top, that is, the end farthest from the center, of stitch 33, and three chain stitches are made, the slip-stitch and three chain stitches are red, and are considered together as the first stitch 31 of the second row. 'I'he next stitch is a red DC, 38, in the top of stitch 34, and the second row continues counterclockwise around the first row with a succession of DC's until the DC stitch 39 is made.

In a similar manner each row ends just above the line 32, and the next row starts with a slipstitch and three chains (considered as a single stitch) just below line 32, e. g. 40, 4I, etc. These rst stitches consisting of a slip-stitch and three stitches are shown in a similar manner to DC stitches in the drawings, because they are of about the same shape and size and use the same amount of yarn.

The third row starting withstitch 40, continues with a redl DC 54, and then two white DCs 49 and 58, and two blue DCs 5I and 52, all four attachedin the top of the white DC 53 of the second row. Stitch 54 is distorted by the crowding of adjacent stitches, but is the same kind of a stitch as the other DCs. Stitches 49, 50, 5I, 52 are squeezed together by being attached all in the same stitch, 53. The third yrow then continues with four more DCs, all in the top of one DC in the second row. Then with the two blue DCs each attached alone in a DC.

lIhe color cycle 40, 54, 49, 50, 5I, 52 (marked by a two-headed arrow 44) and the color cycle marked by the two-headed arrow 45, together correspond in width to the single color cycle marked by the two-headed arrow 43. The total increase in length of yarn used in the third row over the length used in the rst or secondy rows is four color cycles, one color cycle increase in each of the four corners.

The fourth row starts with stitch 4I, and the arrangement of stitchesl at the corner is similar to that in the third row. The two color cycles 48 and 41 correspond in width to color cycle 46. The increase at each corner is one colorcycle. The increase in the whole row is four color cycles. Similarly with the fth and the last rows.

By utilizing the principle of having two color cycles correspond in width to one, and of having the total increase of a row be a multiple of the color cycle, the stripes of each color, for example the stripe of red formed by the stitches 33, 34, 31, 38, 40, 54, 4I, etc., are continuous and appear as a regular and planned pattern.

Figure 3 shows part of a circular motif crocheted outward from a center, 55. The yarn color cycle is of a length capable of forming four white DCs (or four DCs and a chain stitch if crocheted a little tighter), then one red DC, then two blue DCs and a blue chain stitch, then another red DC. Or it could form many other equivalent stitches. The center is made of a ring of chain stitches, like the center of Figure 2. It is shown larger in the drawings than it really is.

The iirst stitch 56, of the first row consists of a slip-stitch and three chain stitches, shown for clarity in a manner similar to a DC stitch. 'Ihis is followed by a red DC, 51. Continuing in a counterclockwise direction, there are in that order a blue DC10, a blue chain stitch, 69, another blue DC1I, a red DC, four white DCs and so on,

ending after four complete color cycles have been used up, with a white DC 58 just below the line 59.

The second row starts just above the line 59, with the stitch 60, which consists of a slip stitch and three chain stitches, shown in a manner similar to a DC. 6I, 62, 63 just above the line 59, are similar first stitches of the third, fourth, and fifth rows. After stitch 60, the second row continues in a counterclockwise direction with 64, a red DC, 65, a blue DC, 66, a blue chain stitch, shown like 69 as a black line connecting the tops of 65 and 61, 61 another blue DC, and 68 another red DC. All the four DCs, 64, 65, 61, 68, are atone in each corner.

white DCs 12 and 13, a chain stitch and two more white DCs 14 and 15. Then repeat the stitches 64, 65 f. 15, until four color cycles are used up, ending with the white DC 16.

The third row starts with the slip-stitch and three chain stitches 6 I, in the top of 60, and then continues with the DC 11 in the top of the same stitch. Then a red DC, a blue DC, a blue chain stitch, a blue DC, and a red DC, the four DCs being attached around chain stitch 66. Then white DCs 18 and 19 attached in top of 12, and 80 and 8| in top of 13. Other places where two or four stitches are attached in one are indicated in a similar manner. All the stitches are DCs except the rst stitches of each row already described, and the chain stitches of which several have been described.

In each of the last three rows the two color cycles included in the bracket 82 correspond in width to the single color cycle included in bracket 82 in the second and first rows. In the third row there is an increase in the length of yarn used, over the length used in the second row, of one color cycle in each ninety degrees, or four color cycles altogether. Since two color cycles in one row correspond to one in another row and the total increase is a multiple of the color cycle, the pattern is regular and recognizable.

Figure 4 shows part of a triangular fabric crocheted outward from a center. The yarn has a color cycle capable of forming eight DCs or the equivalent, e. g. one red DC, three blue DCs, one red DC, three white DCs, as at 93. The center and the first two rows are similar to Figs. 2 or 3.

Every row in the fabric starts just to the right of line 83 with a Iirst stitch consisting of a slip stitch and three chain stitches and goes counterclockwise. The first stitches of the first three rows illustrate this. They are 84, 85, 86. All other stitches in the fabric except the first vone of each row are DC stitches. The first row uses up exactly three yarn color cycles, and ends with a blue DC, 81. The second row starts .with 85, and ends with a blue DC 88. The third row starts with 86, continues with a blue DC," and then a red DC, each alone in the top of a DC of the preceding row. Then come three white DCs all in the top of a single stitch, then a red DC and three blue DCs and another red DC, all live in the top of a single DC of the previous row. Then again three white DCs all in the top of a single DC of the preceding row, and then a blue DC alone in a DC of the preceding row, and then another alone.

The two color cycles between the arrows 89 and 90 correspond in width to the one between the arrows 9| and 92 in the preceding row.

This is an increase in the length of yarn used, over the preceding row, of one color cycle. There is a total increase of three color cycles, The brackets 94 indicate two of the three corner zones in which all increasing takes place. The increasing gives a branching appearance. The bracket 95 indicates a triangular part of the side wherein the pattern consists of straight stripes.

The fourth row uses the same amount of yarn as the third. The fifth row again has an increase of three color cycles, one color cycle in each corner7 the two color cycles 96 corresponding inwidth to the single color cycle 91.

The sixth and seventh rows use the same amount of yarn as the iifth.

The eighth row has an increase of six color cycles over the seventh, i. e. two color cycles at each corner, the increase taking place similar to that in the fifth row, the two color cycles 98 corresponding in width to the single color cycle v99, and the two color cycles |00 corresponding in width to the single color cycle I0 In the 11th row and the 14th row, there is an increase of six color cycles each, similar to the eighth row.

By making two color cycles correspond in width to one, and the increase in each row being a multiple of the color cycle, the pattern is regular and recognizable.

Figure 5 shows a lace motif crocheted outward from a center. The yarn color cycle is capable of forming four DCs, two red and two white, as at |06. For simplicity no outline has been drawn around the stitches. The white area in |06, for example, is composed of two white DCs, and the red area of two red DCs. Alternatively, the color cycle can form eight SCs, or sixteen chain stitches, or any equivalent combination of stitches, requiring the same length of yarn as four DCs. The rst two rows are similar to Figs. 2, 3|, and 4. Eight color cycles are used in each of the iirst two rows. All rows start just to the right of the dotted line |02 and go counterclockwise, ending to the left of line |02.

The first stitch of each of the first two rows is a slip-stitch and three chain stitches, and the rest of the stitches of these rows are DCs. These first stitches are the white areas |03 and |04 just to the right of line 02.

Row II ends with the white DC which is the white area |05 just to the left of the line |02.

Row III starts with a slip stitch in the top of |04, and three chain stitches, all of which together form the white area |01 just to the right of the line |02. Then comes, in a counterclockwise direction, a loop of eight red chain stitches. These chain stitches are not Shown, as they are hidden, as will be explained later, within the stitches which form the white and red areas |08, |09, '||0, ||2. After the eight red chain stitches come two white DCs which occupy the area ||3. The eight chain stitches take the same length of yarn as two DCs. After the white DCs (area ||3), come eight more chain stitches, hidden within the stitches that form the areas ||2, ||4, ||5, etc. The row continues with white DCs and loops of chain stitches alternately until eight color cycles have been used up, ending with the single white DC which occupies the area ||6.

Row IV starts with two white SCs in the area |08 just to the right of the line |02. The two SCs take as much yarn as one DC, or` just enough, together with the white DC ||6 that ended row III, to use up the white part of the yarn. The white SCs are made around, not in the top of, the chain stitches or row III, so that they completely hide them. Then come four SCs of red |09 also made around the chain stitches, then four of white ||0, then four of red then four of white ||2. Two of the four white SCS in ||2 are at one side of the DCs ||3, and two at the other side. For the DCs ||3 have a loop or chain extending in one direction over to |01, and a loop or chain extending in the opposite direction as already described. Two stitches of of the four white SCs ||2 are around each of the loops of chain stitches. Row IV then continues with four red SCs |4, then four white SCs (only partly shown at H5) then four white SCs, then four red SCs, then four white SCs, two on either side of the DCs of the third row, etc., until sixteen color cycles are used up, ending with two white SCs ||1.

Alternatively, how IV can be made with the SCs in the top of the chain stitches of row so that the chain stitches remain visible. This will give a slightly different but still a regular recognizable pattern.

Row V starts with a white slip stitch in the top of the first SC of |08, and three white chain stitches, all together forming the area H8 just to the right of the dotted line |02. Then come two red chain stitches, two red SCs in the tops of the middle two SCs of |09 and two more red chain stitches, all together forming the red area ||9. Then two white DCs |20, in the top of the middle two SCs of H0, etc., two red chains, two red SCs and two red chains, alternating with two white DCs, always attached in the middle two SCs of the group of four of the same color in the previous row. This is continued until sixteen color cycles have been used up, ending with a single white DC |2|.

Row VI starts with a white slip-stitch in the top of ||8, and three white chain stitches, all together forming the area |22 to the right of line |02. The row continues counterclockwise with a loop of eight red chain stitches not shown in the drawings because it is hidden within the stitches that form the white area |23, which are formed around the chain. Then come two white DCs |24, then another loop of eight red chain stitches not shown, because hidden by other stitches. Two more white DCs |25 follow, then four red chain stitches and a red fourchain stitch picot, together forming the red area |26. The four chain stitches use a length of yarn equivalent to a DC, and so does the picot. Then come two white chain stitches and two white SCs, and two more white chain stitches, part of which are shown as |21. All together they form a white group of stitches similar to the red group of stitches IIS. Then (not shown) come a red picot and four chain stitches in that order, the opposite of |26. Then (not shown) two white DCs, similar to 25. The DCs and SCs in this row are all attached in the tops ofy the DCs of row V.

The row continues with a loop of red chain stitches as at |28, then two white DCs like |24 Then another loop of red chain stitches, as at |29, then two more white DCs like |25, all forming two large openings like |28 and |29 with these stitches alternate a red chain and a picot like |26, then a white group, of two chain stitches, two SCs and two chain stitches like IIS, or as partly shown at |21 or |30, then a red picot and chain like |3I, then two white DCc. This is continued until sixteen color cycles have been used, ending with a white SC and two white chain stitches, all together forming |30, a red picot and four red chain stitches |3|, and a single white DC |32.

Row VII starts to the right of line |02 counterclockwise with two white SCs around and not in the top of the chain of chain stitches of row VI until the white part of the yarn is used up. Then two red picots |33, using up the red spot in theyarn, followed by four white SCs around the chain of chain stitches, two more red picots |34, using up the red spot, four white SCs around the chain, two red picots |35, four white SCs, two red picots |36, four white SCs,

two around the chain on each side of the two DCs |24.

This is continued until the two red picots |31 and the next two white SCs have been made. The white SCs completely surround and hide the loop of chain stitches. Alternatively, the SCs can be made in the tops of the chain stitches so that the latter remain Visible.

Then come two white SCs |38 in the top of the second of the two DCs |25 of the sixth row.

`Follow three red chain stitches, a red SC, and

three more red chain stitches, all together forming the red area |39. The red SC is in the top of the picot of row VI. Then four white SCs, partly shown as |40, all four in the top of the two white SCs in the corresponding position in the sixth row. Then again three red chain stitches, a red SC, and three red chain stitches, the SC being in the top of the picot in row VI as |4| is in the top of the picot of 3| Then two white SCs similar to |38 or |42. Continuing the row, there will be white SCs alternating with two red double picots around the loops like |28 and |29, and two white SCs as at |38, then three red chain stitches, a red SC, and three more red chain stitches as at |39, four white SCs, and again three red chain stitches, a red SC, and three more red chain stitches as at |39 and |4|, and two more white SCs as at |42 in the interval between one pair of loops like |26 and |29, and another pair like'them. This continues until forty color cycles have been used up, ending with three red chain stitches, a red SC, and three more red chain stitches |4|, and then two white SCs |42 in the top of |32.

The color pattern is regular and recognizable because the increase in each row is an exact whole number of color cycles. The two color cycles |45 correspond in width to the single color cycle |44 (partly hidden) in the preceding row, which in turn corresponds in width to the single color cycle |43 in row II. The four color cycles |48 correspond in width to the single color cycle |41 (partly hidden) in row VI, which in turn corresponds in width to the single color cycle |48 in row V.

Figure 6 shows part of a spirally knitted tubular fabric such as a womans skirt. Row II is shown iiat with approximately sixteen stitches in width which make up only a fraction of the whole circumference. The large partly conical shape in the middle of the drawing, by being sewed later, will form a box pleat. The drawing shows the continuation of a fabric assumed to have been already started, knitted spirally, with a circumference equal to a multiple of six knitting stitches.

The yarn has a color cycle capable of forming six knitting stitchesone red and ve white, or the equivalent.

Starting with |43, a red stitch in row I, enough knitting' stitches are made from left to right to go once around the circumference. The total number' of stitches will be a multiple of six, ending with |44, a white stitch in row II. This will use up exactly a whole number of color cycles.

'I'hen starting with |45, enough stitches will be made to go once around the circumference less ve, ending with |46, a red stitch in row III.

Twenty-four stitches will then be cast on, i. e. made like a starting row, but not knitted in any stitches of the preceding row. These twentyfour stitches are shown at |41, |48, etc., |49 (the sixth, a red stitch), |50 (the 12th, a red stitch),

I (the 18th, a red stitch),

|52 (the 24th, a red stitch) The next is |53, a white stitch adjacent to |46. Stitches |46 and |53 are knitted in adjacent stitches of row II. Starting with |53 in row III, enough stitches to go once around the circumference will end with a red stitch (not visible) in a row IV directly below and knitted in'l46.

Twenty-four knitting stitches will then be made, one in each cast on in row III. |51, |58, |59, and |60 indicate the sixth, twelfth, eighteenth, and twenty-fourth., respectively, the red stitches. The stitch after |60 is a white stitch directly under (and knitted in) |53, and so on; one knitting stitch in each stitch of the preceding row, in the usual way, with no further increasing.

The five color cycles included within the double-ended arrow |54 in row III, or |55 in row IX are equivalent in width (measuring the width in the plane of the main surface of the skirt) to the single color cycle |56 in row II.

The total increase in row III over row II is twenty-four stitches, i. e. four color cycles, in the box pleat shown, it being assumed that there is no increase in the rest of the circumference. Alternatively, there would be other such box pleats, and/or other increases in the circumference of the skirt, perhaps also in row III, and if the total increase in any row is a whole number of color cycles the pattern in the part shown will be the same.

Since a multiple of one color cycle |54 corresponds in width to a single color cycle |56 in the preceding row, and the total increase in each row is a whole number of color cycles, the pattern is regular and recognizable. The red stitches form unbroken stripes |6 I.

In the claims, the fabrics formed will be described as looped and the method of forming the fabric as looping to define knitted and crocheted fabrics and the method of knitting and crocheting as distinguished from woven fabrics and the method of weaving.

What is claimed is:

1. A fabric looped from a single polychrome yarn with at least some of the successive rows of stitches containing unequal amounts of yarn differing from one another by a multiple of one yarn color cycle, one yarn color cycle in one row corresponding in width to a multiple of the yarn color cycle in the adjacent row, and which has a predetermined recognizable color pattern.

2. A fabric looped from a single polychrome yarn with at least some of the successive rows of stitches containing unequal amounts of yarn differing from one another by a multiple of one yarn color cycle, and one yarn color cycle in one row corresponding in width to a multiple of the yarn color cycle in the adjacent row, and beginning and ending in the same phase of the color cycle as they do, and which has a predetermined recognizable color pattern.

3. The method of looping a single polychrome yarn into a fabric having a predetermined recognizable color pattern with at least some of the successive rows of stitches containing unequal amounts of yarn, comprising the following steps: forming one row of stitches from a length of yarn containing a certain number of color cycles, forming the next row from a length containing said certain number and a whole number of additional color cycles, and choosing the stitches and their colors so that one yarn color cycle in the former row corresponds in width to a multiple of the yarn color cycle in the row following.

4. A fabric according to claim l, and in which successive rows of stitches are formed around a central portion in alternate directions.

5. A fabric according to claim 1, and in which successive rows of stitches are formed around a central portion in the same direction.

6. A fabric according to claim 1 having straight edges.

7. A fabric according to claim 1 having irregular edges.

8. A fabric according to claim 1 and forming a circle.

9. A fabric according to claim 1 and having partly straight and partly curved edges.

10. A fabric according to claim 1 and in which the rows of stitches are formed around a central portion, certain stitches in each row being different in outline from other stitches and containing the multiple of yarn color cycle by which the row differs from an adjacent row of stitches.

11. A fabric according to claim 1 and which forms a tube.

12. A fabric according to claim 1 and in which a plurality of stitches in one row are attached in a single stitch in an adjacent row.

FLORENCE D. LEECH. ARTHUR H. ADAMS, JR. 

